Tarantulas are emerging from their burrows as males feel the call of mating season. Areas around Las Vegas are known for ...

New Tarantula Nebula observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are combined with imagery from ...

A wildlife handler holds a giant bird-eating tarantula and explains why it is one of the largest tarantulas in the world. He ...

Like a collage made of layered sheets of colored cellophane, a vibrant new image layers observations of a famous star-forming nebula from NASA's space telescopes. The resulting cosmic "craft" reveals ...

The tarantula hawk is known to have one of the most painful stings on the planet. But that's only one part of what makes this creature so frightening. Despite what its name suggests, the tarantula ...

Suppose you happen upon several baseball-sized fuzzy hands slowly crossing your path in the weeks to come. In that case, you’ve stumbled upon tarantula mating season. It’s the time of year when ...

In 1799, French soldiers unearthed a large black rock near the Egyptian town of Rosetta (now Rashid) in the Nile delta. Inscribed on its flat face were three versions of a single decree from 196 b.c.

A new species of giant venomous tarantula has been discovered in the north of Sri Lanka. We have some pretty scary arachnids here in Australia, but that’s less to do with their size and more to do ...

Even when a wild animal does not attack, close handling can be harmful on both sides.

It's been wet in Texas this year — exceptionally wet, as a matter of fact. With record amounts of rain, Texas is more than a little hot, green and rife with happy insects. Take the tarantula hawk, for ...